Idle Hands
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
For those of you who have been following your Gregorian calendars, today is 06/06/2006 or 06062006. Those numbers add up to an even round number of 20 (twenty). Coincidentally that is exactly the number of matches that come in a matchbox which is also the standard number of cigarettes in pack. If you smoke 20 cigarettes a day that is 365 packs a year. Cigarette has 9 letters in it so smoke for 9 years and multiply that by the number of leaves on a poison ivy plant, you will have 27 shots of Jagermeister to do before you go to bed. If you do that you will see the Devil.
Everyone in the entertainment and news world is trying as hard as they can to make you freaked out by the coincidence of a few numbers in today's date with a reference to one verse of the Bible. I wonder if they experienced the same microfrenzy on 06/06/1906. Or maybe when they did not have tv, internet, IMAX Theatres, Model T Horseless carriages, or half of a day of free time to do anything you wanted because they spent sun up to sun down farming, building houses, or managing finances just to make enough money to put bread and water on the table for the family. They probably did not have the time to spend three seconds on a stupid number game.
What a great country/world we have where we have built up everything so much that we can leave the world on autopilot while we take entire weeks of our lives to do things like: sit down in front of the court house where Michael Jackson was on trial; where you can go on myspace and post pictures of yourself flashing gang signs and lighting your neighbor's bushes on fire; where you can go on internet forums and argue about how Super Nintendo was better than Sega Genesis; or where you can go to Africa and adopt a baby where we will leave it to be guarded by lions.
Get a JOB.
Doing any of these things 100 years ago would have gotten you killed. So, the next time your internet goes down or your car won't start, just ask yourself, "Do I have the wherewithal to make my own spear to kill a squirrel for food or at least trick someone into doing it for me so I can take his food just to survive?"
posted by Ghengis @ 9:18 PM,
